Naftali Bennett Won't Run in Bayit Yehudi Primaries

Naftali Bennett informed Rabbi Danny Troper, chairman of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home-New National Religious Party) Registration and Elections Committee, that he would not be running in the primaries for formation of the party's Knesset election list.

The former head of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria has been outspoken in his recent criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.